Mr.K.
MANTHIRA MOORTHY
TEMPORARY ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
GOVERNMENT COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
TIRUNELVELI - 627007
Introduction
methods of process planning
Drawing interpretation
Material evaluation
steps in process selection
Production equipment and tooling selection
Introduction
Input and output for process planning
Process planning activities
Method of process planning
Manual process planning
Computer aided process planning
process planning is defined as the systematic
determination of the methods by which a product is
to be manufactured economically and competitively
Process planning comprises the selection and
sequencing of processes and operations to transform
a chosen raw material into a finished component.
It is the act of preparing detailed work instructions to
produce a component.
This includes the selection of manufacturing
processes and operations, production equipment,
tooling and jigs and fixtures.
Marketing team identify the potential market gap
Market need for a new product and idea will generated
R&D Team a product design development will be developed
Concept design stage and the best solution is finalized after
evaluation
Detail design stage all the necessary information are required
Prototype of the product will be made upon final part
Process plan provides detail set of work instruction
drawing interpretation
Material evaluation and process selection
Selection of machine and tool work holding
Setting process parameter
Selection of quality assurance methods
Cost estimating
Prepare the process planning documentation
Communicating the manufacturing
knowledge to the shop floor
MANUAL PROCESS PLANNING
Traditional approach
This experience of manufacturing methods, combined
with knowledge of the types of resource available;
in some cases previously developed plan for a similar
part forms the basis of the new plan. For each
element of each operation,
he refers to manuals to ascertain the company's
recommended tools, feeds and speeds for the
particular material on the selected machine. Also
using manuals,
the planned times for all the handling and machining
elements involved in the process.
Workbook approach
This is considered a more efficient approach to process
planning.
It involves developing workbooks of pre-determined
sequences of operations for given types of workpiece.
pre-determined sequence of operations can be selected from
the workbook and incorporated into the process plan.
Advantages
it is a low-cost task and is flexible,
system can be changed easily.
Disadvantages
Excessive clerical content
Lack of consistency in planning
Late design modifications
Changing technology
The standard plan is usually for a composite part
that incorporates all the features for a particular
group or family of parts.
The parts are usually grouped according to how
they are made using a GT classification and coding
system.
The process plan for the part under consideration
is compiled by retrieving those parts of the
standard plan that are relevant.
the major disadvantage of variant systems is that
plans can be developed only for parts that have
previously been classified as one of the part
families.
computer uses the stored manufacturing and design data to generate a
complete list of all possible process plans that could be used to
manufacture the current part.
It then exhaustively searches this list for the one which optimizes the
cost function. This method always yields the optimum process plan for
manufacturing a particular part.
The computations required to provide even a single process plan for an
arbitrary part design can be enormously complex.
To repeat this for every feasible process plan or a part can become very
costly.
It can be enhanced through the application of AI (Artificial Intelligence)
in the form of expert systems.
